Literary masterpieces are known to withstand the test of time. The passing of years, government movements, and the changing of ideas as the world grows older literary masterpieces still strive on. Literary masterpieces come in all forms; semantics, poetry (literary form), Short stories, and literature (Translations). Literary Masterpieces need an indivisible translation; even then they are still hard to understand. “Their sheer integrity and value should be protected from any unnecessarychanges in their shape and meaning (Brajerska-Mazur, A. (2005). Literary masterpieces speak of not only have explicit events that have befallen to a single character. Literary masterpieces all possess a magnificent prose, a figurative character, a mythic description, a mythic structure, and specificity. Literary Masterpieces also will form a character based on beliefs, creating a character that are resounding and dimensional. These characters that are created for literary masterpieces also are memorable and have clearly defined heroic qualities. Figurative Characters own two abilities which at no time may fail one another if the Masterpiece is to remain consistent.
The first, a individuality of being that will clearly define the uniqueness of the character in their place, time, and situation; and the second, a wholeness of quality that will have them identified as the hero, the Mother, the Warrior, the King, or the Maiden. Characters as Beowulf had these qualities. He was a hero; Beowulf selflessly offered his services to King Hrothgar to battle the kingdoms demons. After Beowulf returned to the Greatland he refused to steal the throne after his Uncle King Hygelac had passed away, this was a noble act.
Contemporary literature has the ability to compare the essence of what the author is trying to bring forth, whether the literature is about self-awareness, or a love that is so special for the author that it is immortalized through literature. “To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write… about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our painful search for self… to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world” (Yahnke, 1993, p. 2). Although Contemporary Literature possesses certain qualities, that gives the reader an understanding of the author and his written work.
Of course so much of what is written during this period takes took notice and lead from the periods which came before; as in the Ancient period with “Genesis:” which is a mythical story of how the earth was created “Ancient writers looked to the past to understand their future” (Damrosch, 2008, p. ). The Genesis story has lasted through the test of time. Each period that came after on served to add something new to what has already existed from the periods before. So much was written during various periods in literature that stemmed from a belief in a higher power, such as “Confessions” by Augustine where character has a strong belief in God; so much that he confesses to God of the things he feels needs to be forgiven for.
Each literary period produced work that somehow told a story, or a self-awareness of the author’s life “The whole point of stories is not “solutions” or “resolutions” but a broadening and even a heightening of our struggles with new protagonist and antagonist introduced, with new sources of concern or apprehension or hope, as one’s mental life accommodates itself to a series of arrivals: guest who have a way of staying, but not necessarily staying put” (Yahnke, 1990, p. 129).. “What defines a man deep in contemplation whose insight and thought are sure? How would he speak? How would he sit?
How would he move? ” The questions, which are put forth in this classic work of literature by this classic character Arjuna, are ones that have been discussed throughout the centuries following the tale and are still redefined and revisited daily in modern day America. Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Confucius debated issues comparable to this one. Modern psychologists and philosophers continue to recalculate these moral debates on a variety of different scales and in reference to each new and modern change in society (What Makes a Literary Masterpiece? (Dec. 17, 2008)”.
In masterpieces of Contemporary Society “Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad”, and The Love Song of J, Alfred Prufrock emphasis on the meaning of compassion, love, everyday life and allusions. The Contemporary literature also stem from stories from the bible such as John the Baptist and Lazarus. “The Heart of Darkness is based from the 19th and 20th century and is revolved around the natures of morality and evil. This masterpiece is filled with action which involves a man by the Name of Charlie who travels to Africa to explore a different type of lifestyle, a lifestyle of darkness, secrets, and death.
Charlie meets a man by the name of Kurtz, of which was a first-class agent, and he is a very remarkable person. ” (pp. 2458) Kurtz was fascinated by Charlie because of his knowledge. Charlie wanted to find civilization, but during his adventure he crossed death, villages, cannibals, slavery, and horror, which resulted in the findings that there was not any type of civilization in the village. At the end of the story, Kurtz has died from an illness, Charlie felt that it was his duty to talk to his fiance and let her know that Kurtz has passed away.
In the story The Love Song of J, Alfred Prufrock, there are two more stories that are found, one of John the Baptist “Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet, and here’s no great matter. ” (pp. 2581) and the other story from Lazarus, “I am Lazarus, come from the dead, come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all. ” This was an allusion of Lazarus and when he was raised from his grave, after being dead for four days. (pp. 2581) both are stories are biblical stories, of which are importance in “The Love Song of J, Alfred Prufock, because they are allusions.
The two comparisons of the two stories, is death, compassion, fear, respect, and they are both contemporary masterpieces. In earlier masterpieces the story of “Dantes Inferno had allusions similar to the masterpiece “The Journey, from Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz. Both stories speak of the forest, darkness, and their personal journeys. There is death involved in both stories as well. Both stories shared the significance through their allusions of pilgrims; “by the dramatic encounters the two pilgrims have with certain of these souls. ” (p. 1263) There were twelve goods agons for six hundred and fifty men; in mine we were only forty-five, but it was a small wagon. (p. 2685) what an experience this must have been for both of these courageous men. The fear that they both carried on their shoulders and they both fought their way through living to the end. Both Dante and Levi shared their bibliographies of which went into a depth of their personal lives. In all the literature that has been read, they are all considered masterpieces, of which had a theme and withstood the test of time. They involved history, knowledge, cultures, society, and government.
The challenges that they all experienced in their lives were overcome by courageous acts, acts that many are not able to follow. Masterpieces are those that interlace a cord of shared aims that links people from a far, from any culture, and from any historical period due to the existence of topics common to all humanity. For as long as humans survive and remain of earth, yearning with questions , to define whom they could be Literary Masterpiece will always be around for Literary Masterpieces will always be timeless pieces of written art.
Literary masterpieces will remain a part of every culture around for those wanting to learn and who crave texts from the past. The masterpieces will prove to them the societies, men, all spanning religions, and all the culture any one could wonder about will in timeless Literary Masterpieces.
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